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Is anyone else getting a lot of scam approaches from their HN hiring posts?

I'm getting a lot of scam/North Korean approaches to mule/front for them.

SEEKING CONTRACT WORK | Forward Deployed Data scientist | Canada/Remote Worldwide

I use AI to build DS pipelines. 15+ years shipping ML inside messy, regulated environments - automotive, mineral rights, health care, maritime security, logistics. I go on-site (or virtually), dig up the data nobody mapped, figure out what the right question is, then build and deploy. Part Archeologist, part anthropologist, and part data scientist.

What I've done:

   - Built a corrosion detection system classifying  corrosion (API 571), and pitting depths from imagery and structured light.
   - Deployed an AI validation pipeline for BIM/CAD against 400-page ESG standards, cutting review from days to minutes.
   - Built and integrated a part-failure prediction system into a German automaker's production workflow, avoiding lemon law recalls ($20M+ exposure)
   - Oil & gas well and lease production forecasting. 
   - Stood up real-time emissions detection on industrial smokestacks, preventing $75K-per-incident fines
   - Revenue optimization and persona identification for debt collections (15-20% net revenue lift)
   - Built an LLM-based legal document extraction system (land runsheets), collapsing 3-day DD cycles to 30 minutes.
   - Built vessel piracy risk engine that informed naval escort deployment, contributing to fewer hijackings.

Things I won't work on:

   - Gambling.
   - Ads/Surveillance.
   - Payday loans/rent-to-own.

Email me (in bio) with a short description of your problem. I'll reply promptly.

^^^ this guy fucks.

You’re right. So Russ was an amalgamation of sacca, cuban, and probably a few more.

I thought Chris Sacca was the inspiration for Russ Hanneman.

The beard, the shirts, the sexual assault allegations. The three nannies suing him - one for no good reason!

This is hacker news.

Good work.

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SEEKING CONTRACT WORK | Forward Deployed Data scientist | Canada/Remote Worldwide

Forward-deployed data scientist. 15+ years shipping ML inside messy, regulated environments - automotive, mineral rights, health care, maritime security, logistics. I go on-site (or virtually), dig up the data nobody mapped, figure out what the right question is, then build and deploy. Part Archeologist, part anthropologist, and part data scientist.

What I've done:

   - Deployed an AI validation pipeline for BIM/CAD against 400-page ESG standards, cutting review from days to minutes.
   - Built and integrated a part-failure prediction system into a German automaker's production workflow, avoiding lemon law recalls ($20M+ exposure)
   - Oil & gas well and lease production forecasting. 
   - Stood up real-time emissions detection on industrial smokestacks, preventing $75K-per-incident fines
   - Revenue optimization and persona identification for debt collections (15-20% net revenue lift)
   - Built an LLM-based legal document extraction system (land runsheets), collapsing 3-day DD cycles to 30 minutes.
   - Built vessel piracy risk engine that informed naval escort deployment, contributing to fewer hijackings.

Things I won't work on:

   - Gambling.
   - Ads/Surveillance.
   - Payday loans/rent-to-own.

Email me (in bio) with a short description of your problem. I'll reply promptly.

This reminds me of William Gibson's "Burning Chrome", where the head of a syndicate is a Russian AI (Chrome) running things behind a smuggling front. Gibson basically predicted the AI CEO forty years early!

A warning: Don't burn Chrome.

Why bring the constitution in line with Estonia's? What's special about them?

Go build something in the wine import / distribution business. You have the domain knowledge no programmer or ai will.

> Imagine a cartridge with a physical model on it.

I can finally have my own Dixie flatline. Cool.

The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.

I think it was a Neal Stephenson quote from cryptobimicon.

It certainly increases shareholder value.

Sorry for the late reply.

Email in profile.

I'm learning to break 4-rotor Enigma encrypts.

Heavy drug wars vibe. I love it.

My hypothesis is markets are fractally efficient and fractally competitive. Much like a strange attractor, they swing between states of efficiency and competitiveness.

The default regime is instability. Computational capacity is unstable through time, and the problem size itself changes (fractally) through time.

SEEKING WORK | Data scientist consultant | Canada/Remote Worldwide

Most of what people call "data science" is now doable with an LLM and a weekend. I focus on the messy, ambiguous, regulation-heavy gnarly problems where nobody is sure what the right question is. Often it involves getting hands on to find the data and signal that's really needed.

What I've done:

   - AI verification of building and architectural BIM/CAD against 400 page ESG standards. (Days of work down to minutes)
   - Part failure prediciton, saving a German automaker from lemon law recalls. ($20M+ exposure avoided)
   - Oil & gas well and lease production forecasting. 
   - Real-time emissions detection for industrial smokestacks. ($75K fines per incident prevented)
   - Revenue optimization and persona identification for debt collections (15-20% net revenue lift)
   - LLM-based legal document extraction (land runsheet), reducing due diligence turnaround from 3 days to 30 minutes
   - Built vessel piracy risk engine that informed naval escort deployment, contributing to fewer hijackings

Things I'm unwilling to work on:

   - Gambling.
   - Ads/Surveillance.
   - Payday loans/rent-to-own.

Email me with a short description of your problem. If it's hard enough, I'll reply within 24 hours.

A major plot point in the Red Dwarf books is about Coca-Cola sending a fleet of space ships out to blow up stars so they can spell "Enjoy Coca-Cola" in the sky.

One of those ships crashes and the boys from the Dwarf find the service mechanoid, which is how they get Kryten.

Microsoft did this with its "Playsforsure" program.

Naturally it got shut down and your media no longer plays.

Microkernel, and hard RT scheduler from the start.

How could I forget this! He also recommended the name.

Wolfram had come up with some normal techie names "computron", "math-o-matic" or whatever. SJ said No those suck, use something simple like Mathematica.

Steve Jobs and Stephen Wolfram were friends for years. Mathematica shipped preinstalled on early NeXT systems.

SJ recommended some of the UI bits of the notebook. Particularly the separators between cells.

I'm using AI to de-compile NeXTStep applications back to Objective-C source code.

The idea is decompile something like Wordperfect or Framemaker, then port the NeXTStep code to GNUStep and have WP on GNUStep/Linux.

Fuuck. Did Spud use vim?

We know Sick Boy (Zero Cool) would be an emacs user.

"format" is what Nigerian scammers call a playbook for each scam type. So a pig butchering "format", romance scam "format", inheritance scam "format", etc.

They offered to help me setup an Upwork account too. Tiresome creeps.

I've gotten the north Korean wanting to use my upwork account... I'd have to create one first.

But now the Nigerian "format" scammers are into job scams. I got an email that reeked and played along a bit. I was "hired" after a curiously simple interview via signal, and had to wait for my "supervisor" to come train me.

Eventually I got the "boss" on the line to talk, he went absolutely postal when I asked if he was an African scammer. Apparently that's racist now.

Lovely spam, wonderful spa-a-m, Lovely spam, wonderful S Spam, Spa-a-a-a-a-a-a-am, Spa-a-a-a-a-a-a-am, SPA-A-A-A-A-A-A-AM, SPA-A-A-A-A-A-A-AM, LOVELY SPAM, LOVELY SPAM, LOVELY SPAM, LOVELY SPAM, LOVELY SPA-A-A-A-AM... SPA-AM, SPA-AM, SPA-AM, SPA-A-A-AM!

SEEKING WORK | Data scientist consultant | Canada/Remote Worldwide

Most of what people call "data science" is now doable with an LLM and a weekend. I focus on the messy, ambiguous, regulation-heavy gnarly problems where nobody is sure what the right question is. With AI as an execution lever, of course.

What I've done:

   - Saved a German automaker from lemon law recalls. ($20M+ exposure avoided)
   - Real-time emissions detection for industrial smokestacks. ($75K fines per incident prevented)
   - Revenue optimization and persona identification for debt collections (15-20% net revenue lift)
   - LLM-based legal document extraction, reducing due diligence turnaround from 3 days to 30 minutes
   - Built vessel piracy risk engine that informed naval escort deployment, contributing to fewer hijackings

Things I'm unwilling to work on:

   - Gambling.
   - Ads/Surveillance.
   - Payday loans/rent-to-own.

Email me with a one-paragraph description of your problem. If it's weird enough, I'll reply within 24 hours.

I feel like there's honestly a space for "Greybeards Inc".

Maybe a consultancy of people who have seen and done it all before - Very selective of their clients.

Back when I was a young lad I wanted engineering to be a real discipline - formal qualifications, codes, held to account, and limitations on who could call themself an Engineer(TM).

But the money was so good we (The royal we) didn't think we needed it, that would just get in the way. Did you see how much FB employees were getting paid in 2015! Insanity! Now, even the skutters have a better union than us.

A plumber, or an electrician has a better union, and hence rights and protection than us.

But if you're building a brand new field you can still build a guild.